Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress, activist, and theatre director. During her career, she has received various accolades, including two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and a Grammy Award, making her one of the few actresses to have won three of the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT). She has also been nominated for six Golden Globe Awards.

Nixon may be best known for her portrayal of Miranda Hobbes in the HBO series Sex and the City (1998–2004) and films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010), as well as the television show And Just Like That... (2021–2025). Nixon made her Broadway debut in the 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story. She went on to receive two Tony Awards: the first for Best Actress in a Play for Rabbit Hole (2006), and the second for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Little Foxes (2017). Her other Broadway credits include The Real Thing (1983), Hurlyburly (1983), Indiscretions (1995), The Women (2001), and Wit (2012).

Nixon's first onscreen appearance (at 8 years old) was as an imposter on To Tell the Truth, where her mother worked, pretending to be a junior horse riding champion. She began acting at 12 as the object of a wealthy schoolmate's crush in The Seven Wishes of a Rich Kid, a 1979 ABC Afterschool Special. She made her feature debut co-starring with Kristy McNichol and Tatum O'Neal in Little Darlings (1980).

She made her Broadway debut as Dinah Lord in a 1980 revival of The Philadelphia Story. Alternating between film, TV, and stage, she did projects like the 1982 ABC movie My Body, My Child, the features Prince of the City (1981) and I Am the Cheese (1983), and the 1982 Off-Broadway productions of John Guare's Lydie Breeze. In 1984, while a freshman at Barnard College, Nixon made theatrical history by simultaneously appearing in two hit Broadway plays directed by Mike Nichols. They were The Real Thing, where she played the daughter of Jeremy Irons and Christine Baranski; and Hurlyburly, where she played a young woman who encounters sleazy Hollywood executives.

Nixon has received numerous awards including two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and two Tony Awards. She has also received several honors including the Muse Award presented by the New York Women in Film & Television in 2008, the Vito Russo Award presented by the GLAAD Media Awards in 2010, the Yale University Artist for Equality award in 2013 and the Faith Hubley Memorial Award during the Provincetown International Film Festival in 2016.

Born 1966-04-09 in New York City, New York, USA.

On ThumbScore, Cynthia Nixon appears in 8 films with an average audience score of 66.0%, most frequently in the Drama genre.

Sources: Wikipedia, TMDB